Mr. Mike Devane:

I will break it up into two phases. When we first raised the concept, we needed to get buy-in from people, particularly from the business community, and to get people along the axis to work together. The task force that was formed by Deputy Ring worked very well for a number of years. That task force basically went about making very specific enabling changes that have helped us quite a bit. The ten local authorities started to work together and that has proven to be very good. When the former Ministers of State, Senator Kyne and Deputy Canney, were chairs, they drove that. They drove the funding and drove the people in the local authorities along the corridor to focus specifically on working together. That collaboration is working. At the outset, local authorities worked very much in their own framework. We now know of several instances where they are coming together. In the case of Ireland West Airport, local authorities are working together to ensure that happens. We have a better example in the Shannon Estuary with Shannon-Foynes-----